Example sentences of "him [prep] one [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One man was lost in the Mexican desert for eight days , having had only enough water with him for one day . |
| 2 | I do n't blame him for one minute . |
| 3 | Apparently , the free spending Italian club AC Milan were so taken with him that they offered Celtic a fee of £100,000 for his services , only to recoil in fear when the club 's manager Jock Stein told him they could only rent him for one game for that amount . |
| 4 | He is constantly haunted by the fear that the US might abandon him for one reason or another and has been particularly uneasy over the new US administration 's attitude towards him . " |
| 5 | I felt myself moving towards him like one cloud drifting into another . |
| 6 | She did n't know whether it was from the night that she had overheard his conversation with her mother in the bedroom , or when she saw him fling that shovel at the young man who , she knew , could have felled him with one blow , that she had lost all respect for him . |
| 7 | Some kung fu clubs place a blindfolded student amid a circle of fellow students , who attack him with one technique at intermittent intervals . |
| 8 | She shrivelled him with one glance . |
| 9 | I did shock him with one answer , cos he he was expecting a totally different answer to the one I gave him which was correct , and you know that is unusual for me , but er I did shock him with one , but other than that it was erm it was er an excellent input all the way through the day , and they explained the differences and why they er approved some products and not the others , things like that , it was er spot on . |
| 10 | Whitlock , sensing his moment , swung round and felled him with one punch . |
| 11 | Buddie suddenly reached behind him with one hand , grabbed Frankie by the sleeve and yanked him from his seat at the table . |
| 12 | He bent his head and his hot mouth closed hungrily over her breast while she offered it to him with one hand , her head thrown back , eyes closed , surrendering to the hot , dark feel of his mouth sucking at her nipple . |
| 13 | The woman was holding on to him with one arm , and with the other she was pounding him on the back , very hard . |
| 14 | I held him with one arm and the other lay between him and the small bump that was the baby . |
| 15 | A wild urge to uproot himself , coupled with unhappy years of accumulated bitterness , threw him into one assault after another . |
| 16 | The guy was taking on ten people at o he he had ten people working for him in one day . |
| 17 | His support of Wilson in 1963 , and the Labour victory of 1964 , brought him in one leap to the Cabinet and to the summit of his career . |
| 18 | The woman is the carrier of evolution for him in one way or another . |
| 19 | If at the end of the specified period , or such longer period as he may allow , they have not satisfied him in one way or the other , the voluntary process ends and he may apply to the court . |
| 20 | Now it becomes urgent to decide , but frivolous or weighty considerations keep pulling him in one direction or the other . |
| 21 | Only with incredible luck , against all the odds , could he reasonably hope to make a safe exit from Russian soil and reach safe ground from which the Americans might be able to extricate him in one piece . |
| 22 | I scarcely see him from one working day to the next . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ He says the players would often not see him from one day to the next . |
| 24 | Bassett said : ‘ It 's my fault for messing him about , switching him from one flank to the other then playing him through the middle . |
| 25 | He had only his sword , and my men were coming at him from one side , and Sapt and Fritz from the other . |
| 26 | Elizabeth Woodville turned and drew him to one side . |
| 27 | ‘ Get out of the way , ’ snapped Rohmer , pushing him to one side as he moved towards Pearce . |
| 28 | The captain of the escort led him to one side , explaining . |
| 29 | Eventually Johnny drew him to one side with a shock-haired young reporter who sported horn-rimmed glasses and a velvet bow-tie . |
| 30 | Someone brushed a hand across him for a gun , but finding none pushed him to one side . |